The Book Of Joyous Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBAD EFEDDFDD GDGFFDGD HIHDDIHD JKJGGKJD FLFMMLFD| Bound and bordered in leaf green | A |
| Edged with trellised buds and flowers | B |
| And glad Summer gold with clean | A |
| White and purple morning glories | C |
| Such as suit the songs and stories | C |
| Of this book of ours | B |
| Unrevised in text or scene | A |
| The Book of Joyous Children | D |
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| Wild and breathless in their glee | E |
| Lawless rangers of all ways | F |
| Winding through lush greenery | E |
| Of Elysian vales the viny | D |
| Bowery groves of shady shiny | D |
| Haunts of childish days | F |
| Spread and read again with me | D |
| The Book of Joyous Children | D |
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| What a whir of wings and what | G |
| Sudden drench of dews upon | D |
| The young brows wreathed all unsought | G |
| With the apple blossom garlands | F |
| Of the poets of those far lands | F |
| Whence all dreams are drawn | D |
| Set herein and soiling not | G |
| The Book of Joyous Children | D |
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| In their blithe companionship | H |
| Taste again these pages through | I |
| The hot honey on your lip | H |
| Of the sun smit wild strawberry | D |
| Or the chill tart of the cherry | D |
| Kneel all glowing to | I |
| The cool spring and with it sip | H |
| The Book of Joyous Children | D |
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| As their laughter needs no rule | J |
| So accept their language pray | K |
| Touch it not with any tool | J |
| Surely we may understand it | G |
| As the heart has parsed or scanned it | G |
| Is a worthy way | K |
| Though found not in any School | J |
| The Book of Joyous Children | D |
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| Be a truant know no place | F |
| Of prison under heaven's rim | L |
| Front the Father's smiling face | F |
| Smiling that you smile the brighter | M |
| For the heavy hearts made lighter | M |
| Since you smile with Him | L |
| Take and thank Him for His grace | F |
| The Book of Joyous Children | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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